[G4] Sleep or leave running?

[Eric Wood]

Am Jan 9, 2008 um 1:47 PM schrieb Keith Whaley:

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> On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Eric Wood wrote:
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>> Am Jan 8, 2008 um 5:47 PM schrieb Pat Crowe:
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>>> I visit my G4QS 2002 many times during the day and between times  
>>> I put it to sleep.
>>> The question is, would it be more beneficial to the computer to  
>>> just leave it run?
>>> PatC.
>>>
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>> There is nothing wrong with sleep. It will help preserve your  
>> hardware, I should think, since some of it, such as hard drives,  
>> will get a respite. And you'll be conserving power, which is  
>> always good. That light bulb theory that turning a computer on is  
>> somehow detrimental is just logical, yet incorrect thinking.  
>> Computers aren't light bulbs.
>>
>> Eric
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> However, if you don't mind my interruption, any electronic  
> components that draw power heat up and expand when turned on, and  
> cool down and contract when shut off.
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> I guess it's entirely possible today's far more sophisticated  
> manufacturing engineering designers have provided comfortably for  
> that heat/cool cycle life. Many of 'yesterday's' components didn't  
> cycle all that well...
>
> keith whaley
>
My thought for hard drives is that they have moving parts, and the  
more they move, the sooner they will wear out. They're rated for so  
many hours of actual operation, so it seems to me that while a drive  
sleeps, it is being preserved.

Eric